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While I normally like This Recording and am generally always happy to see anyone anywhere talking about poet Frank O'Hara, this post has nearly ENRAGED me. that image up there is an image of an illustration by artist Tim Hensley. That image comes from MY photostream. Tim drew that beautiful portrait of Frank for me. The photo is NOT CC-licensed. This Recording used the image but failed to attribute it to ANYONE, let alone Tim Hensley. A curious commenter did a simple Google search and provided the info in a comment. So, thank you, commenter (who cleverly named himself Franco Harrah); NO, THANK YOU, This Recording. - edythe from Bookmarklet

i would guess something of the former. he seemed busy; probably wanted to quickly nip any ugliness in the bud. - edythe

Droplr Desktop is a tiny application for Mac OS X that aims at helping people share things easier. Every day people come across many situations in which they need to share something with someone else. It's a simple problem, but almost every solution is limited, cumbersome, inflexible and/or confusing. Droplr aims to solve this problem by focusing on simplicity, ease of use and flexibility. Droplr Desktop allows you to upload things to Drolr by either drag&drop on the menubar icon, drag&drop on the dock icon or using a system-wide keyboard key combination. Once uploaded, Droplr returns a URL in which a user can share with anyone. - Ben Greenberg

Cool beans. Looking forward to upgrading. - Ben Greenberg

"I'm glad you found it and can now enjoy it too! I loved the recording as a small child and it's a thrill to have it again." - Ben Greenberg

These reductions in privacy protection have significant negative consequences for activists, particularly in repressive regimes where they communicate and affiliate more freely online than they can offline. When Facebook unilaterally removes barriers of privacy, it leaves activists and their contacts open to persecution by authorities. - Ben Greenberg

Here are some fantastic widgets that you will love and find instantly useful! Who doesn’t love the ease of install, drag and drop? It can be quite a hunt to find widgets that are WPMU-compatible when you’re looking to add a little bit of functionality without having to try four or five plugins that do basically the same thing. All of the plugins listed below are WPMU-compatible and will save you loads of time in customizing your blogs. Some are widgets that are routinely requested in WPMU help forums and others you many not have heard of yet, but all have been selected because they contain configurable widgets that can be added to widgetized areas of your themes. - Ben Greenberg

I finished the first WPMU modification for NextGEN Gallery based on the changes from Rowan Crane. I’m tested this here locally and it works so far. If somebody is interested to test this in live you can checkout the current version at my GoogleCode project . - Ben Greenberg

Design and collaborate (in real-time) user interface mockups for your software and websites. - Ben Greenberg

We’ve enabled posting to and reading of WordPress.com blogs via the Twitter API. Any app that allows you to set a custom API URL will work. This project came out of our Quebec meetup and was developed by Team 55 (Andy, Terry, and Raphael). - Ben Greenberg

The importance of measuring the effects of your organization’s social media outreach is not in question. But what metrics should you track? What analytics tools do you need? And what can you do with those numbers, once you’ve got them? - Ben Greenberg

The importance of measuring the effects of your organization’s social media outreach is not in question. But what metrics should you track? What analytics tools do you need? And what can you do with those numbers, once you’ve got them? - Ben Greenberg

HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. - Ben Greenberg

When we talk about balancing light around here, it usually means balancing ambient with flash. But getting a good photo of holiday lights involves a different kind of light balancing: Continuous ambient with fading ambient. - Ben Greenberg

There may be thousands of apps on the App Store, but only one kind make it to my iPhone—the beautiful ones. A few turds do slip in a way, but for most part I appreciate sensible design along with some visual flair. That’s why I had to check out 2Do, a task list manager with a stupendously beautiful UI. As I later found out, it’s also got some serious features that earns it a good review. - Ben Greenberg

Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites. Future versions will allow to check for other theme vulnerabilities. - Ben Greenberg

looks like fun. :) - edythe

The Honk festival is awesome. We're really lucky to have it in Boston (Davis Square, Somerville). Photographing it was a blast—but I'm still catching up on editing the gazillion photos that I took... - Ben Greenberg

http://honkfest.org/ - Ben Greenberg

"Approve." - Ben Greenberg

This 24mm f/2.8 AF-D lens is a lightweight wide-angle lens for all Nikon digital, AF and manual-focus film cameras. It sells for about $360 brand-new. It has excellent optical performance for FX and RealRaw photography. This 24mm f/2.8 is sharper than the $1,850 14-24mm AF-S at 24mm. It is as sharp as the $1,800 24-70mm AF-S at 24mm, and this compact fixed 24mm lens also has far less distortion than the 24-70mm. - Ben Greenberg

This is a remix of a post that Stoney deGeyter published on Search Engine Guide. It was written back in September of 2008 so it has nothing about Twitter, but according to Guy Kawasaki, "it’s great nonetheless." I'd have to agree. Of the 400 - Ben Greenberg

"I went to http://flavors.me and submitted my email address to request a beta invite. ----" - Ben Greenberg

BackType is a real-time, conversational search engine. We index and connect millions of conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media so you can find out what people are saying about the topics that interest you. BackType was founded in June, 2008. - Ben Greenberg

Twiangulate is a tool for discovering hidden tweeters, friends of friends (or friends of enemies), micro-influentials who only insiders follow... or sometimes just friends you haven't yet realized are tweeting. - Ben Greenberg

INSPIRED BY the vanishing subgenre of agricultural memo books, ornate pocket ledgers and the simple, unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery list, the Draplin Design Company, Portland, Oregon in conjunction with Coudal Partners of Chicago, Illinois bring you “FIELD NOTES” in hopes of offering, “An honest memo book, worth fillin’ up with GOOD INFORMATION.” - Ben Greenberg

This past weekend, the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) held its annual conference at the Cabot Lodge on the campus of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. The “surprise guest,” Mississippi State Sen. Lydia Chassaniol (R-14th District), was introduced by emcee Bill Lord — the CCC’s field director who is known for his racist “Martin Luther Coon” jokes — as “the right hand to the Governor [Haley Barbour].” Lord also identified Chassaniol as a “member” of the CCC chapter in Carroll County, one of a handful of Central Mississippi counties she represents. - Ben Greenberg

All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way. - Ben Greenberg

This plugin uses BackType Connect to find conversations on other social media that's related to your content and displays them inline or alongside the comments on your blog - Ben Greenberg

MixApp lets you and your friends gather online and listen to your music together. - Ben Greenberg

Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more. Playdar provides a consistent API for accessing any song ever recorded. - Ben Greenberg

JACKSON, MISS. — Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. Now, the agency is at a dead end in the search for relatives in at least 33 civil rights-era cases, and the FBI needs the public's help. Agents are appealing for relatives of the victims to come forward, the latest challenge in a three-year-old effort to right historical wrongs. - Ben Greenberg

Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you’d expect a canned response along the lines of “we may do that in the future” or “we’re thinking about it,” but Facebook’s VP of Platform Bret Taylor was much more candid. - Ben Greenberg